The Price of Love 1970
爱情的代价
Teddy plays some physically deformed musical genius named Wu Sheng who falls for a blind girl named Jui Fang (Chin Ping). Is love really blind? According to Wu Sheng, probably so, but when Jui Fang is on the verge of regaining her eyesight from an operation, Wu Sheng packs up and leaves the country for fear of Jui Fang disowning him once her eyes gets a look at Wu Sheng.
Vocabulary
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| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 喝西北风 喝西北風 | lit. to drink the northwest wind (idiom); fig. to go hungry; to have nothing to eat | Idiom |
| 好听 好聽 | pleasant to hear | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 对不对 對不對 | right or wrong?; Is it right?; OK, yes? (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 吃的 吃的 | (coll.) food | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 不行了 不行了 | (coll.) on the point of death; dying | Colloquialism |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 老半天 老半天 | (coll.) a long time | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 爷爷 爺爺 | (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather | Colloquialism |
| 奶奶 奶奶 | (informal) grandma (paternal grandmother); (respectful) mistress of the house; (coll.) boobies; breasts | Colloquialism |
| 爸爸 爸爸 | (coll.) father; dad | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 水上 水上 | Shuishang Township in Chiayi County, west Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 一个人 一個人 | by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) | |
| 我去 我去 | (slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 是的 是的 | yes, that's right; variant of | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 你妈 你媽 | (interjection) fuck you; (intensifier) fucking | |
| 看不见 看不見 | cannot see; cannot be seen; invisible | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 到了 到了 | at last; finally; in the end | |
| 不好 不好 | no good | |
| 好玩 好玩 | amusing; fun; interesting | |
| 车子 車子 | car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc) | |
| 茶点 茶點 | tea and cake; refreshments; tea and dim sum | |
| 在地 在地 | (Tw) local; native (from Taiwanese 在地, Tai-lo pr. [tsāi-tē]) | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 一下 一下 | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly | |
| 医 醫 | cure, heal; doctor, medical | |
| 有点 有點 | a little | |
| 早点 早點 | breakfast | |
| 了事 了事 | to dispose of a matter; to be done with it | |
| 等一等 等一等 | wait a moment | |
| 去你的 去你的 | Get along with you! | |
| 怎么回事 怎麼回事 | what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? | |
| 家去 家去 | (dialect) to go home; to return home | |
| 等一会 等一會 | Wait a moment!; after a while |